The temperature on July 19, 1907 was between 9.6 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.
Day of marriage September 6, 1927
The temperature on September 6, 1927 was between 15.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
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